"Better Off On Benefits"

There is "no point" earning less in a minimum wage job is how Leanna Broderick - 20-year-old mother of two - justifies the benefits she claims adding that "she is better off on benefits" and would not get a job unless she could continue her luxury lifestyle, which includes designer outfits, holidays abroad, clubbing, lunches out and expensive gifts for her daughters Zelekah, two, and Zakirah, one. The UK's Daily Mail reports that Leanna saved GBP2,500 (~USD4,000) last year while living on GBP15,480 (~USD25,000) which she intends to spend on iPads and gold earrings for her kids - adding that "This way, taxpayers know I'm raising two well-brought-up kids." However, all is not rosy in Leanna's house as she fears next year may not be so lavish because of Government benefits cuts. "I'm not against the cuts, but only if the Government helps me find a job," she said, "In the meantime, I’ll stay on benefits and get as much as I can out of it."

While many families are worrying about how to afford Christmas this year, one jobless single mother has revealed she receives so much in benefits she has £2,000 to spend on designer gifts, clothes and partying.

Mother-of-two Leanna Broderick plans to buy 20 presents for each of her children, including Burberry and Ralph Lauren outfits, iPads and gold jewellery.

The 20-year-old, who has never worked, claims nearly £15,500 a year in state handouts.

She claims she is better off on benefits and would not get a job unless she could continue her luxury lifestyle, which includes designer outfits, holidays abroad, clubbing, lunches out and expensive gifts for her daughters Zelekah, two, and Zakirah, one.

‘Last year, I saved £2,500 and my kids had 50 presents each, including Burberry and Ralph Lauren clothes and dolls, DVDs and CDs.

‘This year, I’ve saved £2,000 and they’ll get 20 presents each, including iPads and a new Disney-themed bedroom to share, with designer wall art and bed linen,’ she said.

She is also buying gold earrings for Zelekah, who has pierced ears, and keeping £300 for the sales and £150 for a New Year’s Eve outing.

Miss Broderick, who left school at 16 with no GCSEs, said: ‘I don’t care if people get annoyed. I don’t take advantage, I just choose to save – it’s smart.’

She said there was ‘no point’ earning less in a minimum wage job and having to pay for childcare on top.

After becoming pregnant at 17 with her on-off 23-year-old boyfriend, Miss Broderick was allocated a temporary three-bed council house.

When Zelekah was eight months old she considered working in care, but then became pregnant again by the same man.

Now split from the girls’ father, she has a new two-bedroom council flat in Croydon, South London, with a garden, which is paid for by her £111 weekly housing benefit – part of £1,290 a month total claim.

She said: ‘I didn’t want to miss out on my kids’ childhoods or have someone else raise them. I’m not one of those girls who gets pregnant for the benefits.’

The money for Christmas comes from the £250 she saves each month, which she said shows she is ‘really responsible’.

She adds: ‘Anyone who thinks people on benefits don’t deserve nice things is talking rubbish. I work 24/7 as a mother.

‘This way, taxpayers know I’m raising two well-brought-up kids.’

But she admits Christmas might not be so lavish next year because of the Government’s benefit cuts.

‘I’m not against the cuts, but only if the Government helps me find a job,’ she said.

‘In the meantime, I’ll stay on benefits and get as much as I can out of it.’

In the 1950s AFDC intentionally paid about 80% of minimum wage to unwed mothers.

The out of wedlock birth rate was 5% for whites and 24% for blacks.

Home visits for males was common. If the woman was “shaking up” benefits were cut off.

In 1962 the Supreme Court ruled home inspections unconstitutional.

In 1965 LBJ passed the Great Society welfare programs.

By 1970 benefits had quadrupled and it made no sense for low income women to get married.

Crime quadrupled.

Out of wedlock birth rates are 29% white, 53% Hispanic, and 72% black.

Of course the objective was always to create -an elite class of government workers paid on average $126,000 per year, a criminal underclass that is 4 times the prison population of China, cops, judges, a police state, while the elites rape and pillage the USA.

Fiats about to end, paybacks a bitch.

All those government workers are going to be just a bit pissed off when they realize the pension and pussy are gone.

Look ~ Why the fuck do you motherfuckers give a fucking shit if this nappy headed bitch gets a free ride???...

I'm using TRAV777 attitude here because:

- I don't give a shit what any preppy ass motherfuckers think about me, my language use, or concepts

- I saw a few comments here a coupla dayz a go from TRAV [so I hope I can pass the 'anti-semitic', 'rayciss' baton (that some are wanton to fabricate because they're zombies to the JEW MSM), back to him & take a break from ZH for awhile]...

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IT'S ALL FUCKING JOOBUX!!!

I hope the shit she has the time of her life LIVIN LARGE offa Joobux... Maybe, finally then, all you idiots will get a clue [as to what JOOBUX create, manufacture, & distribute in a JOOBUX system]...

Self esteem problem?Kind that hates the system for providing too low a quality permanent vacation life style (entitlement mentality) Hates being looked down upon as social discard.Will vote for continued free ride.Will teach her offspring to do same.Will not hesitate to procreate as marginal costs are absorbed by societyWill likely be firmly entrenched statist of questionable moral and ethical standards

Guaranteed genetically subnormal; IQ 95; un-employable. un-educatable. will never be able to read and comprehend at the median adult rate. Is this human trash what they think built Great Britain. Socialism works fine until you run out of other peoples money to spend. But actually, it doesn't; because the genetic failures that should have died in their cat-box home countries, and kept on dying until "Mom" got the message about birth control; will guarantee the utter destruction of the entire society. Darwinism doesn't work when you try to run it backwards.

You hit the nail on the head. I am a literacy volunteer and all the talk about such folks "getting educated". "learning a skill" and "contributing to society" is just talk. She may be an exception since she saves, a rarity these days.

It is nearly impossible for those who deprecate hard work, saving, planning, education and self-reliance to suddenly become productive citizens. It is equally unlikely that the "dole folk" can be educated or trained beyond a minimum level. They simply don't possess the tools that should have been instilled years earlier. A 20-something (or especially foreign) will easily learn to read but it is excruciating for those older than 40.

The movie "Idiocracy" was not particularly good, but the premise was chilling - I was spooked by the concept many years before this type of blatant entitlement grab started showing up in the media. And I thought the dumbing down of the population was strictly an American phenomena.

I certainly would have to concur on that point. Last time I made the mistake a couple of years ago of stopping through the downtown Cleveland Walmart, not taking into consideration that it was the first of the month, every line was full with at least ten people and full shopping carts paying with their refilled EBT. I simply dropped my basket and realized that I will never make the mistake of shopping there ever again. When I first saw Idiocracy years ago I thought it was an amusing comedy, but sadly I now realize that it is about one generation away from being a documentary.